Muon Farstrider
Partial Safety
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Posted - 2016.03.02 19:19:18 -
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I think pyfa does a lot of things better than EFT already, but I have a couple feature requests/gripes that I would like to raise at some point. None of them are major, but they would all be nice to have.
My gripe is the default column spacing management is rather wonky when the program is run on lower resolution screens (i.e. a laptop). This is what the program window looks like when first opened (full-screen-width) on my macbook - all I've done here is open a fit and hit 'module market group' on one of the autocannons. As can be seen, the main fitting window column sizes are such that it's barely getting to the misc column, but more annoyingly, the market window for the autocannons has the name column so wide that the CPU/PG cost columns aren't even visible in the window. Both of these can of course be fixed by resizing the columns, but it is still a significant annoyance. This is especially true for the main fitting window since it resets the column widths when I load a new fit, forcing me to resize them each time.
For the market window, I would personally think it should default the name column width to whatever value allows for the CPU and PG cost columns to fit, as I can't think of any situation where you *wouldn't* want those visible. The main fitting window is less clear-cut, but it does seem to leave an awful lot of room between columns by default. Alternatively, instead of changing the default widths, perhaps the program could remember the widths the user assigns rather than resetting to the defaults each time the program (or a new fit) is loaded? Another possible workaround might be to allow font size to be changed in the preferences, so that users with more cramped screens can make the text smaller.
Apart from that, one thing I really wish the program provided is speed/sig and EHP/sig ratios. The numbers are right there, and it looks like there's sufficient room to add another couple entries to the 'targeting & misc' stat block. I can calculate these myself, of course, but it would be very convenient to have them automatically provided by the program when I'm flipping back and forth between different combinations of tank and propulsion modules and wondering which gives the best ratios. |